---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 300309"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "300309"
heading: "Indian tribe"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/300309"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division A — Historic Preservation"
  - "Subdivision 1 — General Provisions"
  - "Chapter 3003 — Definitions"
---

# §300309. Indian tribe


In this division, the term “Indian tribe” means an Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including a Native village, Regional Corporation or Village Corporation (as those terms are defined in section 3 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ([43 U.S.C. 1602](/usc/43/1602.md))), that is recognized as eligible for the special [programs](/usc/54/308601.md?p=3) and [services](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4) provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3189.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 300309 | 16 U.S.C. 470w(4). | Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 301(4), as added Pub. L. 96–515, title V, § 501, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3001; Pub. L. 102–575, title XL, § 4019(a)(3), Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4763. |